Fifis

Hello! Frankly, it must have been a heisenbug. I rebooted many times, downloaded the headless version, came home, retried... and the good old `dropbox_2020.03.04_amd64.deb` worked and is now syncing perfectly. It shall remain a mystery forever why it was not working... sorry for not being able to reproduce the problem, so…

in Dropbox daemon downloader freezes at 90+% on fresh Linux Mint 21.1 Comment by Fifis March 2023

Hello again. I managed to find the solution. It was very easy. The problem was, the ‘XApp Status Applet’ (xapp-status) was not enabled. Cinnamon is using XApp.StatusIcon (replacing the deprecated Gtk.StatusIcon in GNOME 3.26+) to pass information through dbus in multiple desktop environments. Linux Mint is warning users…

in Tray icon not showing on Arch+Cinnamon after trying all other recipes from these forums Comment by Fifis May 2020

Dear Lusil, Thank you for your prompt reply, and sorry for the delay. I tried the complete advanced reinstall, but to no avail. I created a ticket for the team, and its number is #10690413.

in Tray icon not showing on Arch+Cinnamon after trying all other recipes from these forums Comment by Fifis May 2020

Dear Lucil, Thank you for your prompt reply. In brief: your suggestion to downgrade to 96.4.172 did not work, the icon did not appear. However, a different error message appeared not. Not so in brief: I unchecked the ‘Early release’ option, as you told me to, purged everything (including .dropbox and .dropbox-dist),…

in Tray icon not showing on Arch+Cinnamon after trying all other recipes from these forums Comment by Fifis May 2020

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